Hillside Little States

HILLSIDE, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125560
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:
Hillside Little States
Statutory Address:
HILLSIDE, SCHOOL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125560
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:
Hillside Little States
Statutory Address 1:
HILLSIDE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
LITTLE STATES, SCHOOL LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HILLSIDE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address:
LITTLE STATES, SCHOOL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Medmenham
National Grid Reference:
SU 80759 84870

Details

MEDMENHAM SCHOOL LANE SU 88 SW 8/155 Little States and Hillside 29.10.76 GV II Former laundry, now 2 houses. Circa 1898-1900 with later internal alterations. By Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks, upper storey roughcast and whitewashed with wooden bressumer, plain tile roof, brick chimneys with 'V'pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque. 2 storeys and attic, approximately 6 bays. Leaded windows with ovolo - moulded mullions, chalk to ground floor, wood to upper storeys. 2 centre bays are slightly advanced and have gables overhanging on coved jetty with moulded bressumer. Below bressumer is a long almost continuous strip of 24 transomed lights, divided into 3 groups of 8 by narrow recessed panels. 3-light attic casements in gables, the left altered. Altered ground floor windows below with paired leaded casements in wooden frames. Outer bays have irregular ground floor windows, and gabled dormer with paired leaded casement to right. 2 panelled doors in moulded and stopped chalk surrounds with 4-centred arches and carved spandrels. (Country Life, 22nd September 1900).

Listing NGR: SU8075984870

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
47038
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 22 September, (1900)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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